Feature request - copy code improvements

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Now that chat gpt 4o is churning out tons of code per reply, I think a couple of tweaks are in order.

Either: a spinner next to the copy code button while its still generating

Or: a copy code button at the end

It’s often way off screen and there is no indication that is still generating unless you’re looking at the bottom of the answer, so there is a lot of scrolling up and down.

Generally speaking I just want to get that code into my clipboard as fast as possible so that I can drop it into my IDE and use GIT to dissect the changes and see if I agree with them.

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OR: simply stop uselessly grabbing scroll control away from the user with a script and hidden scroll anchor after all the messages, and let what is being generated be read.

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Agreed, not only is the ‘Copy’ button up at the top and a pain - but more frustratingly; the ‘Edit’ button is even FURTHER above :mountain_snow:, which is even more of a pain :smiling_face_with_tear: given how useful & frequently used a feature it is … would only make sense that it would be at the bottom.

None the less I resort to zooming out my window 50% and scrolling up from there if that helps any :mending_heart:

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I once got it to make hyperlinks that download code directly to a specified directory, all I pressed was “replace file” …I have not been able to replicate it to do that. Now that I am learning the API anything is possible, but if I used the API to generate the amount of code that I do, I would go broke :smile:

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this has been solved now, the copy code button follows me down as I scroll.

also, i didnt realise when I posted this but there is a keyboard shortcut to grab the last code snippet which is sometimes useful:

Copy last code block

⌘ + Shift + ;

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Unfortunately some time now the button stopped moving as you scroll in web chatgpt

Please bring it back, this was super useful QOL

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ChatGPT Seems to have “copy code” following my blocks around at the top-right.

The screw up is: have multiline input in a new chat, which is now persisted. Go to another chat, then back to “new chat”. All the newlines are lost and the input is completely screwed up.

Then still, copy out of a user message is extremely damaging content, also losing newlines, and if you thought “edit message” was a place to get a repaired copy - copy doesn’t even work there.

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For me it definitely stopped moving with scrolling, it just stays on top of the code block, on Web ChatGPT.

Firefox Nightly 148.0a1 (I will later try non-nightly on another PC)

Ok hold on, I just tried Edge not logged in and it was moving. Maybe its a browser issue. I will have to see (and report to bugzilla if its the nightly…I have to use nightly on one laptop due to certain reasons)

Thanks for mentioning that it works fine for you.

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Turns out that it was not a browser issue, not extensions, but after clearing data and cookies, its now moving (again)

Weird.

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